Solar industry: FDP jeopardizes East Germany as a business destination 25. March 202426. March 2024 On the occasion of some media reports that the FDP in the federal government wants to permanently block the resilience bonus for the solar industry in Germany planned by Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck, Madeleine Linke, state chairwoman of Alliance 90/The Greens Saxony-Anhalt, explains: “The Solar Valley in Bitterfeld-Wolfen has already been needlessly driven against the wall once before by […]
Greens: Citizens to better participate in revenues from renewables 29. August 202329. August 2023 The Greens in the state have renewed their demands for a state-wide participation law. With this law, municipalities and citizens should directly benefit financially in the future when wind and solar farms are built in their vicinity or wind turbines are replaced as part of repowering. Madeleine Linke, state chairwoman of Alliance 90/The Greens Saxony-Anhalt, explains: “It is the right […]
Electricity price reform lowers energy costs in Saxony-Anhalt 14. August 202314. August 2023 Madeleine Linke, state chairwoman of Alliance 90/The Greens Saxony-Anhalt, welcomes the ideas of the Federal Network Agency for a fairer distribution of costs for grid fees. In regions where a particularly large amount of renewable energy is generated, especially high fees for grid charges often still have to be paid at present. “Saxony-Anhalt has been an export state for electricity […]
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are a warning to us to this day 6. August 20234. August 2023 The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 killed over 100,000 people and resulted in many more burn and radiation casualties. Nuclear and hydrogen bombs have not been used in war since, but the threat potential has remained, most recently in Russia’s war of aggression on Ukraine. Under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, only the U.S., Russia, China, […]
Energietour-Blog: Sachsen-Anhalt: nachhaltig und innovativ 21. July 202326. July 2023 Photovoltaik, Windräder, Biogas, Geothermie – wir wollen unabhängig werden von dreckigen fossilen Energieerzeugern wie Kohle und Gas. Überall in Sachsen-Anhalt treiben Menschen die Energiewende voran. Unsere Landesvorsitzende Madeleine Linke ist daher in diesem Sommer quer durch unser Bundesland unterwegs. Altmark: Wind- und Agri-Photovoltaikanlagen Der erste Stopp auf der Energietour brachte Madeleine in die Altmark. In Stendal plant und betreut das […]
Greens on the ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court 6. July 20236. July 2023 Yesterday night, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled that the Building Energy Act can for now not be finalized and decided upon in tomorrow’s session of the German Bundestag in 2nd and 3rd reading. Responding to this, Dennis Helmich, state chairman of BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN Saxony-Anhalt, comments: “The heating transition is the safeguard that heating will remain affordable in the future […]
Support for the domestic solar industry is coming 25. June 202325. June 2023 The federal government announced on Friday that in the future it wants to support companies that want to establish or expand production capacities in the solar industry in Germany. Dennis Helmich, state chairman of Alliance 90/The Greens, explains: “The last few years have shown: supply shortages are possible even in a globalized world and threaten our prosperity. It is therefore […]
We are driving the heat transition forward 25. May 202325. May 2023 There is currently a lot of discussion about the 🚦 federal government’s new heating law. Unfortunately, there is also a lot of fake news circulating about it. Here are the most important facts: ⚡️ Buildings account for slightly more than ⅓ of total energy consumption in Germany. The heat transition, i.e., the conversion of the heating supply away from dirty […]
The end of nuclear power in Germany 10. March 202310. March 2023 Nuclear power continues to pose a high safety risk. Tomorrow’s anniversary of the disaster in Fukushima, Japan, reminds us that contamination and thus damage to health and the environment can never be ruled out. And the Russian attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant show that nuclear facilities can also be used as geopolitical weapons. On April 15, 2023, Germany’s […]
Earlier coal phase-out strengthens Saxony-Anhalt as a business location 2. March 20232. March 2023 Alliance 90/The Greens of Saxony-Anhalt reiterate their demand that the coal phase-out in eastern Germany be brought forward to 2030. This is prompted by recent statements by the Minister Presidents of Brandenburg and Saxony, who do not want to target the coal phase-out until after 2038. Also Saxony-Anhalt’s Prime Minister Haseloff and Minister of economics Schulze had expressed themselves similarly […]